This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Office 365 ProPlus, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages in Office 365 ProPlus.

Language identifiers

Office 2016 is available in many languages. In an international setting, you can deploy multiple language versions of Office 2016 in a single installation process. Setup combines a language-neutral core product with one or more language-specific packages to create a complete product.

On the source media, language-specific packages are organized into separate folders. Each folder name has a language tag appended to it, in the form ll-cc. That tag identifies the language and culture. For example, U.S. English language folders are identified by the folder name extension en-us. The language tags help you determine the folders that you have to copy to the network installation point.

The language folders that are included in a fully localized version of an Office 2016 product are the same as the language folders that are included in the Microsoft Office 2016 Language Pack for a specific language. For example, the same Outlook.ar-sa folder is used in the Arabic language version of Office 2016, the Arabic language version of Outlook 2016, and the Office 2016 Language Pack - Arabic.

Note

Language tags are also referred to and used as "language IDs" for some procedures.

Office 2016 offers localized versions in all the languages that are listed in the following table. Folders for the language-specific components are identified by the language tag that is shown in the table. The Windows operating system uses locale identifiers (LCIDs) to identify languages in the Windows registry.

In addition to the fully localized languages listed here, Office 2016 provides Language Interface Packs (LIPs), which contain a subset of language-specific components and are designed to be installed together with a logical parent language. Elements that are not localized in the LIP language appear in the parent language. For more information about LIPs, see Language Interface Packs.

Language tags (language IDs), and LCIDs available in Office 2016

Language

Geographic area

Language tag (ll-cc)1

LCID

Arabic

Saudi Arabia

ar-sa

1025

Bulgarian

Bulgaria

bg-bg

1026

Chinese (Simplified)

People's Republic of China

zh-cn

2052

Chinese

Taiwan

zh-tw

1028

Croatian

Croatia

hr-hr

1050

Czech

Czech Republic

cs-cz

1029

Danish

Denmark

da-dk

1030

Dutch

Netherlands

nl-nl

1043

English

United States

en-us

1033

Estonian

Estonia

et-ee

1061

Finnish

Finland

fi-fi

1035

French

France

fr-fr

1036

German

Germany

de-de

1031

Greek

Greece

el-gr

1032

Hebrew

Israel

he-il

1037

Hindi

India

hi-in

1081

Hungarian

Hungary

hu-hu

1038

Indonesian

Indonesia

id-id

1057

Italian

Italy

it-it

1040

Japanese

Japan

ja-jp

1041

Kazakh

Kazakhstan

kk-kz

1087

Korean

Korea

ko-kr

1042

Latvian

Latvia

lv-lv

1062

Lithuanian

Lithuania

lt-lt

1063

Malay

Malaysia

ms-my

1086

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Norway

nb-no

1044

Polish

Poland

pl-pl

1045

Portuguese

Brazil

pt-br

1046

Portuguese

Portugal

pt-pt

2070

Romanian

Romania

ro-ro

1048

Russian

Russia

ru-ru

1049

Serbian (Latin)

Serbia

sr-latn-rs

2074

Slovak

Slovakia

sk-sk

1051

Slovenian

Slovenia

sl-si

1060

Spanish

Spain

es-es

3082

Swedish

Sweden

sv-se

1053

Thai

Thailand

th-th

1054

Turkish

Turkey

tr-tr

1055

Ukrainian

Ukrainian

uk-ua

1058

Vietnamese

Vietnam

vi-vn

1066

1 Language tag is sometimes referred to as the language ID.

Proofing Tools Config.xml OptionState Id values

The following table provides the OptionState ID values for the Office proofing tools. It is ordered alphabetically by language. Use these values to modify the Config.xml file in the ProofKit.WW folder when you customize the setup of the Office proofing tools. For more information about proofing tools, see Plan for Office proofing tools. For instructions on how to customize proofing tools, see Customize and install the Office proofing tools.